[R] value.labels

[Rolf Turner]

On 12/08/11 11:34, Heinz Tuechler wrote:
> At 12.08.2011 09:11 +1200, Rolf Turner wrote:
>> On 12/08/11 09:59, Heinz Tuechler wrote:
>>> At 11.08.2011 21:50 +0300, Zeki Çatav wrote:
>>>> Prş, 2011-08-11 tarihinde 19:27 +0200 saatinde, Uwe Ligges yazdı:
>>>> >
>>>> > On 11.08.2011 19:22, David Winsemius wrote:
>>>> > >
>>>> > > On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>>> > >
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> On 11.08.2011 16:10, zcatav wrote:
>>>> > >>> Hello R people,
>>>> > >>>
>>>> > >>> I have a "data.frame". Status variable has 3 values. 0->alive,
>>>> > >>> 1->dead and
>>>> > >>> 2->missed..........................
>>>> > .........................................
>>>> > As I understood the question, just how to rename the levels was the
>>>> > original question.
>>>> >
>>>> > Uwe
>>>>
>>>> I don't want to rename levels or converting from numeric to string. I
>>>> want to add each corresponding levels value, a label, as in SPSS.
>>>> Level 0 labeled with alive,
>>>> level 1 labeled with dead and
>>>> level 2 labeled with missed.
>>>
>>> This is not possible with a factor, because factor levels can only 
>>> be positive integers.
>>
>> That is just plain (ridiculously) wrong. RTFM.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf Turner
>
> So, how would you construct a factor with levels 0, 1, 2 and labels 
> alive, dead, and missed, as the original post asked for?
>
> Heinz

As I said, RTFM. But for completeness:

x <- sample(0:2,100,TRUE)
y <- factor(x,labels=c("alive","dead","missed"))

Duhhh.

cheers,

Rolf Turner